Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet

Ever since his beloved wife was horribly burned in an auto accident, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), a skilled plastic surgeon, has tried to develop a new skin that could save the lives of burn victims. Finally, after 12 years, Ledgard has created a skin that guards the body, but is still sensitive to touch. With the aid of his faithful housekeeper (Marisa Paredes), Ledgard tests his creation on Vera (Elena Anaya), who is held prisoner against her will in the doctor’s mansion.

Starring: Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatundé, Ned Beatty, Bernie Mac

During Prohibition, loudmouth Harlem grifter Ray (Eddie Murphy) and the no-nonsense Claude (Martin Lawrence) team up on a bootlegging mission to Mississippi that could bring them big bucks. But they run into trouble when a crooked lawman hits them with a phony murder charge. Ray and Claude are given life sentences and shipped off to jail, where they must think of a way to prove their innocence and avoid the brutal guards while battling their biggest enemies — their opposing personalities.

Starring: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Fayssal Bazzi, Ian Bliss

Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy hosts a syndicated talk show ‘Night Owls’ that has long been a trusted companion to insomniacs around the country. However, ratings for the show have plummeted since the tragic death of Jack’s beloved wife. Desperate to turn his fortunes around, on October 31st, 1977, Jack plans a Halloween special like no other–unaware he is about to unleash evil into the living rooms of America.

Our pre-show will include special content from Shudder and IFC Films featuring David Dastmalchian in “Monster Shock Theater”—the unseen footage of the show that aired prior to Night Owls with Jack Delroy.

Warning: Images are not from the movies we’re showing. Trust us, you can’t imagine what we’re showing!

This month, we’re heading to the late ‘70s to bring you this blistering transitional flick that takes kung fu movies from Old School to New School so fast it’ll leave friction burns on your corneas. One of the greatest action movie directors of all time is fully unleashed in a heavyweight lead performance that leaves no martial art undemonstrated, no weapon unused, and no furniture unbroken. With its two lead actors playing multiple roles, some of the most surreal humor ever fire-hosed into your eyeholes, and a series of escalating martial duels that keep going higher, harder, faster, and stronger, this one proves that we believe in going out with a bang. And no movie bangs harder.

Starring: Hala Zein, Kinda Alloush, Samir al-Masri, Nizar Alani, Darina Al Joundi Nabil Abousalih Samer, Seyyid Ali

Introduced by Yasmina Tawil, Director of Film Programming, Arab Film & Media Institute. Part of the Arab Women in the Arts Showcase. To make an additional $10 donation to Arab Film & Media Institute, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

14-year-old Zeina and her family are the last to have stayed in their besieged hometown of Damascus in Syria. A missile rips a giant hole in their home, exposing them to the outside world. When a rope is mysteriously lowered into the hole, Zeina gets her first taste of freedom, and an unimaginable world of possibility opens up for her.

As the violence outside escalates, the family is pressured to evacuate, but Mutaz, her father, is adamant that they stay, refusing to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. Faced with a life-or-death dilemma, Zeina and Hala, her mother, must make the choice whether to stay or leave.

Starring: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Els Dottermans, Mil Seghers, Jan Decleir

Co-hosted by programmer Shay Filmore

Antonia, an independent single mother, returns to her Dutch village after World War II to run her late mother’s farm. Once she and her daughter are settled, this “feminist fairytale” spins a multigenerational yarn about a community of strong women and local outsiders cultivated by Antonia. Written and directed by Marleen Gorris (A Question of Silence), the film is a big-hearted, fresh look at women brushing against patriarchal norms to find autonomy and pass those lessons on to the women who come after them. Gorris weaves a fantastical and sensitive tapestry about the highs and lows of life. Even in the face of tragedy, this Academy Award-winning poetic parable radiates whimsy and radical affirmation.

Print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive

Starring: John Polonia, Jon McBride, Sebastian Barran, Maria Davis, Todd Carpenter

Two buddies on a road trip in rural Pennsylvania encounter the early days of an all-out invasion of Earth by pint-sized, flesh-eating aliens.

The Polonia Brothers are back, in their most popular SOV outing since Splatter Farm (1987). This time John Polonia takes center stage on screen alongside frequent collaborator and co-director Jon McBride (Cannibal Campout, Woodchipper Massacre) and both share the directing duties with John’s twin brother Mark. Feeders packs a much more polished punch but is not one ounce less offbeat, charming or gore drizzled than fans have come to love from the magical magnetic tape kingdom of Polonia.

Starring: Simon Rhee, Phillip Rhee, Arlene Montano, Howard Jackson, Peter Malota

Mystic aliens from the astral plane fight Kung Fu warriors for control of the universe!

Simon, a fierce Kung Fu master, ventures into the city’s gritty underbelly for answers to his sister’s death. There, a cunning spiritual master deceives him, plotting to snatch his piece of an ancient amulet he shared with her. Unraveling the scheme, Simon plunges fists and feet first into a bone-crushing battle for the fate of the world against an alien army of karate wizards, dragons, a new wave clone band, talking pigs and mystical chickens!

One of the most bizarre domestic martial arts movies ever made, Furious throws the 1980s home video chopsocky craze in a blender with elements of the supernatural, horror and superhero genres, by way of an improvised MTV video. Featuring Hollywood martial arts legends Simon and Phillip Rhee (Best of the Best, The Matrix, Inception) in their first ever starring roles and who also handled all the non-stop action choreography on display in the film.

Starring: Melissa Moore, Ed Cannon, Mal Arnold, Don Tilley, Morrow Faye

Tough as nails police officer Lucas only works the night shift — because he also happens to be a vampire! Armed with supernatural strength and a thirst for justice (and blood), he’s locked in a deadly game with crime boss Hans Gieger in hopes of cleaning up the streets. But when investigative reporter Melanie Roberts starts getting too close to the story, Lucas’s secret is on the line, while Gieger aims to create his own vampire army. Lucas and Melanie must take the ultimate bite out of crime and stop him.

SOV superstar Donald Farmer’s (Demon Queen, Scream Dream) slow motion smothered, toothy tale of street justice and juicy jugulars is overflowing with dreamy analog visuals and delirious dialogue that would make even the lowest budgeted, dime store-fanged Dracula recoil as if scorched by the rays of the sun.

Starring: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga, Tawfeek Barhom, Bill Nighy, Charles Dance

When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.